Peter Falk Quotes
My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
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The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.
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My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
